Is YouTube Premium Still Worth It After Price Increase? Here’s How It Looks Compared to Spotify, Tidal, Amazon Music, and Apple Music

YouTube Premium will increase the price in EuropeThe new prices are not yet reflected for those who subscribe to the subscription, but Google has confirmed to us that the increase seen in other European countries will also extend to our country.

The price of the individual package will increase a little but The biggest hit will be for those who pay the family planwhich will cost 25.99 dollars instead of the current 17.99 dollars.

YouTube Premium is by far the most expensive

Bad news if you pay for YouTube Premium, it will cost you more no matter what as soon as its new prices are extended to Europe. Google has confirmed to us that They update the prices of YouTube Premium subscriptions and users from other European countries have already received the bad news. Thanks to them, we can get an idea of ​​the future that awaits us in YouTube Premium prices. And it is bad news.

Thus, the individual package will go from 11.99 dollars to 13.99 dollars per month (+16.68%), even if The biggest change is the family plan: from 17.99 dollars to 25.99 dollars per month (+44.47%). Even students are not exempt from paying more, from 6.99 dollars to 8.99 dollars per month (+28.61%). The average increase is 30%.

This means that YouTube Premium is the most expensive streaming music subscription of the moment. It was already before, with 11.99 dollars for the individual package compared to the 10.99 dollars prevailing with the competition, but now the difference is even greater in the family package.

While the family plan allows us to share the subscription with five people for 25.99 dollarsSpotify and Amazon Music’s cost 17.99 dollars and admit six people, while Apple Music and Tidal’s cost one euro less. The student plan is also considerably more expensive (8.99 dollars) than the competition, which is less than 6 dollars in the rest.

YouTube Premium gives you more than just music

Of course, not all subscriptions are created equal. Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and Tidal all let you stream music (almost the same number of songs, in fact), but YouTube Premium’s biggest draw is far from the music, in the ability get rid of youtube ads. Some advertisements, which, by the way, have multiplied recently until you can no longer escape them even by pausing a video.

THE YouTube Music audio quality is lower than in other music streaming services, which until now was compensated by YouTube-exclusive features such as background playback or video downloads. This made YouTube Premium a very tempting subscription since it cost almost the same as the rest, but with extras. Today, these extras are more expensive. You can see the differences summarized in the following table:

New YouTube Premium prices include it disadvantage compared to other streaming apps if we only take into account music playback. This, if the new prices are confirmed in Europe and if the other streaming services do not also increase their prices, which seems very likely in the short to medium term.

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